Some Electronic Voice and Other Phenomena of the Wellington (Washington State) Avalanche Disaster (1910-)
2. Have you ever been in an accident that resulted in your own death?
- Yes
- No
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(i)
[{2010}, 19; {2013}, 22]
a monstrous roar
immediately
awoke
the town of Wellington
& the people rushed
down
the
slope
♪
DOWN
DOWN
PRICES ARE
DOWN
♫
to the ruins
of trains & rotary plows
buried in debris
ice
& snow
ninety-seven
dead
& do not wish
to be forgotten
(ii)
[{2010}, 19, 29, 31; {2013}, 26]
my butt
is freezing
even though
I’m sitting
on electric socks
| the worst
disaster
in the history
of the
United States |
>>> Donald J. Trump, 45 <<<
a scratchy male
voice __ ______:
I want to see you naked
||
you can grab them by the
<<< pussy >>>
ctrl + alt + delete
Casey, who is sitting on the bench across from me, pauses mid-
sentence and says,
“Someone just pulled my hair”
/
Tathra Pub, Easter 2002 →
untrammelled desire
(iii)
[{2010}, 49, 52]
Want to play?
I feel something stroke
the back of my neck
[the incubus has semen
as cold as springwell
water1]
& Steve spent the night | in a hotel room
dreaming of a woman | screaming in his face
the entity in area 61
(iv)
[{2010}, 50, 52; {2013}, 41, 54]
I even had one guy
in
The Bellingham Herald
’s
online comments section
[suggest]
Clay Thistleton today at 8.40am DSM-5 297.1
my belief in ghosts
must mean I was cheating
on my husband
PS
elected POTUS
≠
Deleuzian line-crossing
w/- ‘grab them by …’
yet/I
sasquatch, hairyman
am banishèd
for
three dots
| & when our eyes
for the first time
in three years
across the cavernous vestibule
of a two-bit emporium
I feel only ↘ |
three dots
↖ strange things
happening in the car
as we drive
the video screens
in the back
blink
in
&
out &
my
cell
phone
keeps
making
weird
noises
| Libby |
Tanner’s
iPod
shuts
down
repeatedly
three dots
while
a voice
I’ve recorded before
clearly asks
oh dear, did that hurt?
& a tall, black
human-shaped mist
in area 61
threatens
| Roswell? |
~
[ATC Supervisor:] Ask them if they want to report officially.
[ATC:] TWA 517, do you want to report a UFO? Over.
[TWA Pilot:] Negative. We don’t want to report.
[ATC:] AirEast 31, do you wish to report a UFO? Over.
[AirEast Pilot:] Negative. We don’t want to report one of those, either.
[ATC:] AirEast 31, do you wish to file a report of any kind to us?
[AirEast Pilot:] I wouldn’t know what kind of report to file, Center.
[ATC:] AirEast 31, me neither.
(v)
[{2013}, 23, 53 ]
there’s a big tall guy in period dress
who appears to passers-by without a face
Gertrude who sings in the parking lot
& Sergei who speaks with a Russian accent
| Wiktor, you’re a very unattractive man |
although they currently don’t have bodies, they
are
more like you
& me than they are
different
(vi)
[{2013}, 60]
I notice Bob
| her loving is a wild dog
she’s got … |
[three dots]
has
the look
in his eyes
that I see
in so many Others
after they’ve visited
the debris field
the fall of capitalism
a mile-and-a-half along the forest floor
on the banks of the Tye River
" " " of the River
↳ Wah-Hoo
" " " of Kiss’ Lagoon
a succession of blue ⏩ green ⏩
↳ kaleidoscope-eyed
girls ⏸
turning aside
[-o-]
the first words of the Gweagal
↳ clan
to Lieutenant James Cook, RN,
& the crew of the barque
Endeavour,
(Botany Bay,
New South Wales,
28 April 1770)
Warra warra wai!
~ go away ~
[-o-]
{Figure 1: John & Taupin, 1973}
once you’re there, though, you see
rusted metal strewn
about
some large train parts
you can find
brakes | ladders | doors |
broken pieces
cables | pipes
a circular stairwell
from a first-class
train car
“moments lost
↯
in time, like tears
… in … rain”
[ - Roy Batty ]
{Frazier, 2010, 2013}
Note:
1 Testimony of Isobel Gowdie, self-confessed Scottish witch, 1622.
Works Cited:
Frazier, Karen. (2010). Avalanche of Spirits: The Ghosts of Wellington. Fullerton, CA: Ghost Knight Media.
Frazier, Karen. (2013). Dancing with the Afterlife: A Paranormal Memoir. North Charleston, SC: createSpace.
John, Elton & Bernie Taupin. (1973). “Loves Lies Bleeding”. Universal Music Publishing Group.
Clay Thistleton has previously appeared at Unlikely Stories as a character in John Bryan's epic Love has been Liquidated. Clay has taught creative writing and literary studies in universities, community colleges and not-for-profit organisations for almost two decades. He is the author of Noisesome Ghosts (Blart Books, 2018): an Elgin Award nominated collection of found poetry that investigates the phenomenon of ghosts and poltergeists that have the ability to speak or write. His current project, Never Mind the Saucers (Stranger Press, forthcoming), examines documented instances of alien-human sexual contact. Along with his son Dylan, Clay lives in New South Wales, Australia with a fluctuating number of feral cats.
